Equity Bancshares (EQBK) Competitors

FB Financial (NYSE:FBK) and Equity Bancshares (NASDAQ:EQBK) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Is FBK or EQBK a better dividend stock?

FB Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Equity Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. FB Financial pays out 29.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Equity Bancshares pays out 54.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Which has better valuation and earnings, FBK or EQBK?

FB Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Equity Bancshares. FB Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equity Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
FB Financial	$748.95M	3.26	$120.22M	$2.29	22.89
Equity Bancshares	$227.58M	2.90	$7.82M	$1.10	39.22

Which has more risk and volatility, FBK or EQBK?

FB Financial has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equity Bancshares has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts prefer FBK or EQBK?

FB Financial presently has a consensus target price of $50.20, indicating a potential downside of 4.21%. Equity Bancshares has a consensus target price of $44.75, indicating a potential upside of 3.72%. Given Equity Bancshares' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Equity Bancshares is more favorable than FB Financial.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FB Financial	1 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Equity Bancshares	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Is FBK or EQBK more profitable?

FB Financial has a net margin of 14.40% compared to Equity Bancshares' net margin of 6.36%. Equity Bancshares' return on equity of 13.53% beat FB Financial's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FB Financial	14.40%	10.38%	1.23%
Equity Bancshares	6.36%	13.53%	1.22%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in FBK or EQBK?

65.4% of FB Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.8% of Equity Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of FB Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Equity Bancshares shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer FBK or EQBK?

In the previous week, FB Financial had 3 more articles in the media than Equity Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for FB Financial and 4 mentions for Equity Bancshares. Equity Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat FB Financial's score of 0.46 indicating that Equity Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
FB Financial	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Equity Bancshares	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer FBK or EQBK?

FB Financial received 105 more outperform votes than Equity Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 49.29% of users gave FB Financial an outperform vote while only 48.26% of users gave Equity Bancshares an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
FB Financial	Outperform Votes 244 49.29%	Underperform Votes 251 50.71%
Equity Bancshares	Outperform Votes 139 48.26%	Underperform Votes 149 51.74%

Summary

FB Financial beats Equity Bancshares on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.